Marko Kaiser has announced the release of linuX-gamers Live 0.9.6, an Arch-based live CD/DVD/USB image containing a large collection of popular Linux games. New features: host system in local network. New games: Osmos demo, LinCityNG, OpenTTD.

Features The current version is a developement release, version 0.9.6. Features are:

* top free native Linux games!
* most of the games have a multiplayer mode!
* high performance video card drivers
o proprietary NVIDIA drivers for GeForce2 MX and better (up to GeForce GTX 4xx included)
o proprietary ATI driver for Radeon HD 2400 and better (up to Radeon HD 58xx included)
* open source drivers with 3D acceleration for many other video cards
* harddisk is not touched!
* nothing needs to be configured, everything is done automatically
* networking is configured using dhcp server (network manager included)
* LAN hosting makes it possible for other clients in your LAN to boot from the network!
* hybrid ISO enables you to either burn the image to a disk or to write it to a USB device
* FREE!!!!

Note: If the computer you try live.linuX-gamers out on is older than 6 years, you should try the Lite version as it contains mostly games suited for older computers.

Bugs Known issues of the current releasee:

* some games go out-of-range for some screens
* one some sound cards, sound may fail or give static noise
* insufficient testing on ATI and Intel graphics cards
* two games can be started at the same time, potentially causing performance problems

The following games are included on the most recent release of live.linuX-gamers {Big ISO}